Comments by "Edith" (@Omikoshi78) on "A Life Engineered" channel.

  1. Often times growing others don’t come with recognition because many of the lower level engineers don’t want to acknowledge the help. They often want to take ALL the credit, So I avoid wasting my time unless they demonstrate humility and baseline level of respect. I find that helping folks outside my team is often more productive for me than helping people on my own team. I imagine the stack ranking / promo curve / etc probably has something to do with this phenomena.
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  2. Very insightful, I'd accept you as a manager in a heartbeat haha So in the past, being at a big tech for 10+ years was seen as a sign of weakness. What's your take these days? I feel like this stigma dissipated over time. Maybe due to lack of talent in the candidate pool.
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  3.  @ALifeEngineered  What's your take on people in niche fields that doesn't have as much portability within a given company? Think about fields like security or AI. I feel like there's decent learning / growth oppurtunities staying on one team because often times you're acting as a consulting hub for rest of the org/company. I guess it might look less desirable on paper but as long as there's continued growth and can communicate that it's probably fine.
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  4.  @ALifeEngineered  Solid advice! Thanks Meta!
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  5. Blinking intensifies when asked about why you're working for Amazon. j/k But in all seriousness I've been in FAANG for a while. Back in the day, people who got PIP'ed went over to amazon to restart their career. We all kind of looked down on Amazon at the time because it was viewed as a safety cushion for failed engineers. However, it was right before Amazon's stock really took off. These people that were PIP'ed over to Amazon did well and was promoted to Principal or higher and got a lot of stock over the years. The stock 15x'ed over the past decade! They probably have a higher networth than me even though I was never PIPed! Life is funny like that. So in retrospect I'd say Amazon was a better choice than FAANG for growing wealth. Atleast for the last decade. Easy to see in retrospect but it's hard to discern looking forward.
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  6. The professional negotiator: Yes my client will work weekends for an additional 20% pay. Win win 😂
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  7. I know the salary cap was raised for Amazon but did it make harder to do deferred come at 160k base? I’m assuming you can’t defer the stock portion of the compensation.
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  8. It can backfire too. I know many of my colleagues went from a stable FAANG company to a startups like Coinbase and their TC jumped by 80-150k. But now they're laying off engineers and many big tech instituted a hiring freeze. But pre-2022, I agree moving around generally lead to quicker TC bump. But it didn't necessary help with the career in the sense that your role and sphere of influence/responsibility stayed roughly the same according to your skill level. There were other companies that were willing to pay more money for the same skill.
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  9. Good luck buddy, liked and subscribed.
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